They pulled this shit AGAIN!!!

[Archae]

These are not "activists."
They are spoiled brat children.

Climate activists hurl pea soup on Van Gogh in Rome

A group of activists on Friday splashed pea soup onto a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece in Rome, in a protest they warned will continue until more attention was paid to climate change.

"The Sower", an 1888 painting by the Dutch artist depicting a farmer sowing his land under a dominating sun, was exhibited behind glass and undamaged.

Four activists were arrested, according to news reports.

The climate activists from Last Generation called their protest "a desperate and scientifically grounded cry that cannot be understood as mere vandalism".

https://www.rawstory.com/climate-activists-hurl-pea-soup-on-van-gogh-in-rome/

[SlimJimmy]

1. It is vandalism, pure and simple.

The climate activists from Last Generation called their protest "a desperate and scientifically grounded cry that cannot be understood as mere vandalism".

[Effete Snob]

2. Yeah

Got me so mad that I went out and burned a whole pile of coal.

[iemanja]

5. No one did.

Nor did a single person use less fossil fuel because of this. It’s sheer stupidity.

[iemanja]

3. Scientifically grounded?

Throwing soup on paintings?

We know climate change is scientifically grounded, but they claim their “cry,” or protest is. What is the science that says throwing soup on paintings improves climate change?

[RockRaven]

4. If I wanted to turn public opinion against environmentalists, this would be a cheap way to do it.

Hiring a handful of people to perform these actions would probably be less expensive than buying lots of ads.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is a false flag situation. I'm just saying it is superficially indistinguishable from one (and most people surfing the internet do so shallowly).

[Dorian Gray]

23. Yeah

They're making people mad. IT's stupid.

[SoCalDavidS]

6. Fucking Stupid

Like people are going to suddenly care about global warming because some Morons ruin a priceless piece of art.

[Nevilledog]

7. The paintings aren't ruined. They're protected by glass.

I'm just shocked that people get so upset about these performative protests. No one is being hurt, the art is not being harmed.

Seems like there are more important things to dwell on IMHO.

[Archae]

8. Somebody has to clean up that mess.

Make those spoiled brat "activists" do the cleaning!

[Nevilledog]

12. Fine.

[iemanja]

9. They want attention. They do it for attention.

People are going to have opinions about them.

[Nevilledog]

11. Yup, and I have mine.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but all protests are about getting attention. There's just a multitude of ways to do them. Some you may support, others you might not.

I'm happy these young people are engaged. Face it, they're going to suffer the ravages of climate change for a much longer time than most of us on this board. Would throwing soup on art be MY method of protest? No. Did they ask me? Also no.

[brooklynite]

10. Not all paintings all...

…but perhaps patrons will now be held back from ALL paintings, just in case.

[Genki Hikari]

15. Some are. Not all

And it's still just fricking STOOPID. The paintings did nothing to cause climate change, and attacking those will move the needle on awareness of the seriousness of climate change zero, if not moving it backwards.

Worse, these scumbags look as cowardly as they do STOOPID for not taking their fight to the parties most responsible for causing the problems. Museums aren't that target. Oil companies are.

Freedom Riders didn't attack a shoe store across the street from a bus station to protest segregated buses. THET TOOK THE FIGHT TO THE BUS COMPANIES, AND BOARDED A FRICKING BUS. They risked their lives to do it.

That's how you protest, not this stupid, namby-pamby, whiny, scumbag move of attacking paintings. Only complete morons attack a subject so far removed from the actual target, and think that will do any good.

[Nevilledog]

17. Which painting has been harmed?

There was slight damage to a frame.

[Initech]

13. Seriously, fuck these morons.

[sakabatou]

14. I hope the painting isn't damaged or it can be repaired.

[ForgedCrank]

16. I always have

wondered what the logic is behind doing something despicable for a cause.
Sure, it'll bring a lot of attention, but it's nearly 100% negative and does nothing but hurt the very cause they are wanting to promote.
It makes absolutely no sense to me at all.

[Hekate]

18. It is vandalism & frankly I am out of patience. I hope there's more than just a fine for this.

[Journeyman]

19. A Van Gogh exhibit traveled thru L.A. in 2000. There was nothing between me and the art . . .

I was astonished that I could get close enough to his work to feel the emotion in his impasto and visualize with Vincent his exuberance of color. Who knew The Potato Eaters had such vivid light in the sombre darkness of that family's repast?

Fast forward to last March, in Santa Barbara, to the rarity of yet another Van Gogh exhibit. This time, entirely under glass. I felt better for it, that inquisitive fingers were forbidden contact with the treasures. And as I wandered among them, I couldn't help but remember the attack years ago on Michelangelo's Pieta, when a madman took a hammer to the Mother's arm and face, and I was comforted to know all these beautiful visions of Van Gogh were protected from both the elements and the mentals.

It was sad, to be kept at distance from the work, but the coverings -- a special formula called museum glass -- were indestructible and neither cast a shadow nor reflected the room, so you could actually get closer than we were allowed before and, despite the barrier, still feel the impact of each brushstroke, and almost see his fingerprints in the thick colors of his imagination.

To think, that misguided fools concerned with the "environment" should cast "as-pee-sions" on the work of a tormented soul who strove to show the beauty and dignity of people living in harmony with the earth.

I hope, whatever their punishment proves to be, it helps deter any future plots of such foolishness.

[Raine]

20. What they did is so detrimental to the environmental movement one would think that they're actually

working against environmentalists. 🤔 🤨

[Meowmee]

21. It does make you wonder

If they truly cared about environmental causes they wouldn’t be doing this.

[GreenWave]

22. Why don't they put a knife in front of the hurled pea soup?

Then they can call it split pea soup!

[Meowmee]

25. Lol😹

[Kaleva]

24. They should be saving that soup.

I don't know how their actions help in surviving catastrophic climate change.